Lens Artists Photo Challenge #358 – Live and Learn

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Tina’s challenge is Live and Learn. Tina reminds us of the importance of continuing to learn new things as we age. Here is her challenge: “Show me some of the things you’ve learned about photography or any subject you choose. Do you learn by doing as I do, or are you one who learns from classes, or online, or through working with others?”

I’ve never taken a photography class. I learn by doing and by experimenting and by making plenty of mistakes.

Some of the most important things I’ve learned in my photography journey is to always be prepared with batteries charged, space on the memory card, and a clean camera and lenses.

One of the most important editing techniques I have learned is how to crop. When we spotted this bear on the side of the road I didn’t have much time to frame the shot. I cropped the photo and edited the colors to achieve the final image shown here.

One of the reasons I keep participating in the weekly Lens-Artists challenges is because it helps me to learn new things about photography. These photos illustrate some of the photography tips and techniques I’ve learned.

The featured image uses a Bokeh technique. I learned from one of Sofia’s challenges that In photography, a Bokeh is the blurred or out of focus background in a photo. I frequently use this effect when photographing flowers.

When photographing wildlife, always focus on the eyes

I learned about Zooming from one of Anne’s challenges.

Fill the Frame

Leading Lines

Rule of Thirds

Last week Egidio took us Into the Woods for some Forest Bathing. I enjoyed all of the wonderful responses. Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 2 at noon Eastern Time when John will be hosting our next challenge.

Many thanks to Tina for this challenge Lens-Artists #358 – Live and Learn

For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.

Every Day is a Gift.

35 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge #358 – Live and Learn”

  2. Beth, your comment about having learned some techniques from our challenges is so heart-warming! Over the years we’ve had followers come and go and it’s always great to hear things like that. And now here you are leading challenges! Kudos to you for your enthusiasm and passion for photography as well as your skill. This week I was especially drawn to your zoom and your egret. Terrific post

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    1. Thanks Tina! Thank you for this challenge. At first I didn’t how how in the world I was going to respond to it. It was a good one because it made me think about how much I have learned over the years.

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  3. Photo challenges are such a learning experience. I really enjoy the times I have to reach out to try something I haven’t done before. Your egret is beautiful, but that’s not to take away from your other photos here!

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  5. You’ve learned wonderful lessons Beth and your images shine. I’m so glad you’re zooming because of one of my challenges. It’s just another way to have fun with photography.

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  7. I have learned a lot from photographic friends. They are generous with their advice. I think the most important thing that I have learned is that you see what you are looking at, but the camera sees everything in front of it, so you have to learn to look like a camera not a human.

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